Words that rhyme with Measure
Measure, a two-syllable low-register anchor, lands its weight on the r-coloured schwa and flows into the next line via a liquid. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. What the engine returns: perfect matches come in a small handful, the family column is blank, and the assonance options multiply into the thousands. Lyric-wise, the word reads as a word the lyric earns weight from by context. When strict matches feel exhausted, the assonance column is where you go fishing.
Open measure in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (11 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- leasure
- leisure
- pleasure
- treasure
- cheshire
- flesher
- fresher
- pressure
- thresher
- displeasure
- refresher
Family rhymes (0 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
No family rhymes for measure. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant rhyming.
Additive & subtractive (10 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- measured
- measures
- pleasures
- treasured
- treasures
- eh
- heh
- reh
- yeh
- pirouette
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- pressured
- pressures
- bearer
- bearers
- beggar
- beggars
- belcher
- belier
- belter
- bencher
- benchers
- bender
- benders
- better
- bettered
- betters
- bettor
- bettors
- bever
- bevers
- blender
- blenders
- carer
- cellar
- cellars
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- azure
- closure
- crozier
- mosher
- seizure
- persia
- barrage
- bougie
- collage
- corsage
- cortege
- dressage
- garage
- massage
- mirage
- montage
- prestige
- composure
- disclosure
- enclosure
- exposure
- foreclosure
- inclosure
- massager
- ambrosia
How songwriters use these rhymes
Measure in the first verse, leasure in the second, and a song between them.
No family rhymes for measure. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
From measure to measured, a consonant arrives and the rhyme reshapes.
The vowel between measure and pressured carries the rhyme โ the consonants step aside.
The measure at the start of the line, the azure tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why measure rhymes the way it does
The rhyme map for measure starts at the vowel โ the /ษหr/ vowel, IPA /ษหr/ โ and ends where the line ends on a liquid that pulls the line forward. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 11 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 10, assonance 8,203, and consonance 49. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. Practical: skim the strict column first and pick the two or three matches you can sing without thinking. Then move to assonance for the in-between lines. Measure reads as more memorable when the strict matches are reserved for the line endings that matter most.
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About RhymeForge
RhymeForge is the free rhyme finder built into Undercover Zest. It searches over 54,000 words across five rhyme types: perfect, family, additive, assonance, and consonance. It is built for songwriters, not crossword solvers, and the slant-rhyme classifications are tuned accordingly.
This page is a static snapshot of the rhymes for measure. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open measure in RhymeForge above.